Keep up the great devotionals – Your writing makes me feel like I am watching you run the race experiencing your experiences through your words! Thank you for the great devotional today! May the Holy Spirit continue to encourage us. We do need to pray to continue to put in the effort to stay in the race as you remind us. Your devotional brought back good memories of church picnics from my childhood. Make the Almighty God continue to use your gifts, blessings. Your gift to keep the Light of Christ is most unique that comes across as inviting. I have appreciated you gift of storytelling all the way for many years.
Blessings for these special writings you continue to do. Yes, seeking our Lord and giving Him well deserved reverence gives us much strength and security to go forward each day. Thank you, Joel, for another of your interesting and great advice devotionals. Joel – my prayers continue that you and your family may be restored in health to carry on this vital work God has given you.
I will remember it in the challenging times and also, I think I will use that shoe activity with our youth group, sounds like fun!įunny how some things stick in our minds Joel. Thanks for your remembering about that race so many years ago, and you are still in the race getting close to 90. Thank you for your interesting devotional, and so true about winning the race. Thank you, Joel, for your continued devotionals, so good to have to start the day. It’s so interesting to see how stories from our young lives can prompt spiritual messages. Great and encouraging devotional! Always glad to read your messages! Amen.įorward this devotional Share this devotional on Facebook Like Presb圜an on Facebook We pray for strength to finish the race to Your glory. Prayer: Our Father in heaven, we do admit that there are times when we are burdened down with the cares of the world. For those of us who are involved in spreading the gospel, each of us in our own way, we, too, must fight the good fight, keep the faith, and finish the race, and then, we, too, will receive our reward. It seems like this prophecy is being fulfilled at the present time. He also told Timothy that he should always be ready to preach the word in season and out of season - in other words, all the time! "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers and they will turn away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness". He told Timothy: "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. He endured many difficult experiences - shipwreck, house arrest, stoning, and jail - but he never gave up, and expected a reward. He travelled to many places and met all kinds of people: ordinary, well-educated, and royalty, too. Paul considered himself to be in a kind of race as well, not a foot race as I was in, but the marathon task of spreading the gospel. While I put it on, the other shoe came flying out, so I put it on, walked back to where we started, and I won. When I got to the pile of shoes, one of mine was lying outside the area where the others were madly searching. I was wearing a pair of running shoes that were well worn, not too clean, and easy to recognize.
The more fanatic ones dived in with reckless abandon. When the word was given, the group of kids charged for the pile of shoes.
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Some of the parents urged on their children, giving them advice as to what to do and how to win. The idea was that we were to run over, find our shoes, put them on, and run back to the starting point.
Some of the adults mixed them all up so that it would be hard to find our own shoes. We all had to take off our shoes and put them in a big heap some 30 feet (ten metres) away. I was shy and not very competitive, but I was more or less forced to take part. I was put in with the 12-to-15-year age group. All the members of the church were recent immigrants from the Netherlands, and there was a great number of children, so those in charge decided that it would be a good idea to have games for them. It was 74 years ago last September 6th that I won a race. Listen while you read: "Holy Holy Holy" 1 (Lyrics)
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